David Stanton (Cork East, Fine Gael)

About a year ago, Ireland was one of the first countries to sign the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. A number of pieces of legislation will have to be passed here before we can ratify that convention. One of them is the mental capacity Bill. Can the Tánaiste say what progress is being made on that legislation and where it currently stands? Does legislation need to be passed before we can ratify that UN convention? If the Tánaiste does not have the information to hand, perhaps he can let me have it at some stage.

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